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Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Chapter 9 Vocabulary
Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Chapter 12 Vocabulary

  1. sectionalism
  2. free state
  3. slave state
  4. tariff
  5. Henry Clay
  6. Andrew Jackson
  7. Missouri
  8. Underground Railroad
  9. Dred Scott
  10. Frederick Douglass
  11. Sojourner Truth
  12. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  13. Harriet Tubman
  14. secede
  15. Confederacy
  16. border state
  17. civil war
  18. Abraham Lincoln
  19. Stephen A. Douglas
  20. John Brown
  21. Jefferson Davis
  22. Robert E. Lee
  23. Fort Sumter